Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-02-24
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called angels wings.
TnE United States Colleges contains 1s
op female students.
NEW YORK CITY consumes ki7. ON on
worth of milk every year
SIX new counties are to be carved out Of
Tom Green County, Texas.
horHoUsE strawberries are selling in
Boston at thirty cents each.
CHRISTINE NILSSON was married To Count
Casa Miranda, few days ago.
A CLUMSY Nashvillian has dropped a wad
oi 1850 into asewer, irrctrievably.
THERE is little probability of n decision
In the big telephone suit before next fall.
"A BILL 10 give convicts a college educa
uon Is before the Wisconsin Legislature.
In Kentucky last year nearly 5,OOOoob
| 1SS5. '''"" q"
Two Thousand eight hundred divorces
were granted in the United States last
year.
The Emperor of China has expressed a
great desire To taste Melican porkee-
beanee. ~
Lucy Stone predicts that woman will
be President of the United States in the
| year 20o0.
Born houses of the Nevada Legislature
have adopted resolutions disfranchising
Mormons.
GROSS OF steel pens, once costing thirty
hve dollars, may now be produced for
eight cents.
NEW York girls, tired of the gaietiea of
the season, have turned their hands TO
| cooking to kill time.
The pay of a member of the Maine Leg
islature is fixed at $50 for the session, be
| 1t long or short one.
EMMETT BORDERS, sixteen -year-old boy
OF Audubon, Iowa, died recently from *
cessive use of tobacco.
The second annual session of the for
estry congress was held at De Funiak
Springs few days ago.
The removal of a New Orleans Judge for
maifeasance In Office has caused consider
able comment I'm the press.
UNGER hero of the headless corpse
tragedy, seems 10 be real tendcr-hcarted
assassin. He wept in court.
JOHN BARDEN has been regular sub
scriberof the Rutland (vt.) Herald, that
paper says, for fifty-nine years
| AT Council Bluffs, Ia, the other day. a
woman was divorced in the morning and
married again in the afternoon.
In attempting to enter the canal at Men.
asha, Wis, 140-pound sturgeon grounded
on sandDar and was captured
MRS, MAcKAr As reported 10 have 40
CURED brilliant sapphire from a needy
Russian prince for the trifie OF $l5o,0Oo.
The majority of Bostonians arc Irish
men. Out OF population OF 4OO, 600 10 is
said 2sO,OOO are Irish by birth or descent.
The Hawaiian Government has just an
nexed Ocean Island, which is described "a
sandbank 200 miles from the Hawaiian
group
GENERAL MIDDLETON commander Of the
Canadian militia, says IL is absurd 20 talk
OF war between the United States and
England.
The patron saint OF Valentine Day was
beheaded. Some writers OF yalentine
poetry might appropriately be served the
same way.
WILLIAM l.. SCoTT, of Erie, Pa, "a said
TO be the largest individual coal worker in
the world. He employs 10000 men in min
ing and shipping.
PRINCE Louis NAPIoEoS. second ,on ~
Prince jerome Napoleon Plon-Plon) has
asked permission 10 accompany the Italian
troops TO Massewah.
SAMUEL MURFIrT, OF Upton, England
has just died. He was six feet one iocb In
height, measured 100 inches around the
waist ana weighed go pounds.
The Duke OF Marlborough recently said
that he supposed the only chance left oper
20 him since he had been 80 cut by Eng
lish society was 10 marry an American
beiress.
THERE is dog at Magog, Quebe,, that
will mount the toboggan sled, go down tho
slide, draw the sled back, and go down
again as many times as his owner com
mands him.
BOLD gang Of American thieves is
making big hauls in Canada. There is
retrlbution in this. Canada has for years
been making big hauls Of American thieves,
plunder and all
In a great storm OF snow and sleet re-
Gently, IN England, the wing Of frooks froze
fast 70 their bodies, and hundreds of the
birds were killed by falling from trees,
being unable TO fly.
IT is reported from Maine that the Eng.
lish sparrows arc growing white, as q re-
suit Of their becoming acclimated. White
feathers have been often noticed this win
ter on the sparrows.
IN Montana during the wntor cowboys
make living by killing mountain lions.
for which bounty Of eight dollars per
head is paid. The animals are ferocious
and some are very large.
THE marriage Of Lulu Hurst, the mag
netic girl Of Georgia, 20 her manager, calls
attention 10 the fact that almost any girl
with fortune Of t2OO,OCO In her own right,
is more or less OF a magnet.
VALENTINE DAY has come aud gone-the
day when old maids receive pictures OF
washerwomen with extension teeth, and
dainty dudes are presented with hfe-like
portraits Of hodcarriers and sausage ped
dlcrs
LET Georgia exhibit her magnetic girls
and Illinois her sympathetic girls, South
Carolina proudly points 10 home-rais
damsel Of thirteen years who weighs -
pOunds, and defes the country TO beat that
record.
ALBEIT NICKERsoS, tweive-year-old
lad Of Sag Harbor, daily sits down 20 the
table with his father aud mother grand.
father and grandmother, and great grand
father and two greatgrandmothers.
SIR LIONEL WEST, British Minister az
Washington, is reported as saying that he
does not anticipate any trouble whatever
between Great Britain and the United
states concerning the fishery question. .
The brother Of Anarchist Spies, who
served the latter as proxy in the Van
zandt msrriags, is now urged 70 70 step